Mr. Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the return of the hon. member for Honoré-Mercier to the House, to congratulate him on his victory, and to offer the constructive co-operation of the official opposition.
The member spoke about the importance of investing in infrastructure. As an engineer, I must agree. However, we already had a plan to invest in infrastructure without passing on a debt to future generations.
Why put Canadians in debt to invest in infrastructure? Why also give tax cuts to people who earn $200,000 a year, when people who earn much less are getting a trivial tax cut?
I had the opportunity to sit with my colleague and he knows that under the Conservatives, Canada reduced its greenhouse gas emissions and that the targets set by the Conservative government were the ones studied in Paris.
Why put Canadians in debt? We hear a lot about sustainable development, but right now we are not in an economic crisis.